Timetable
Monday, September 28
9:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:00 Soren Galatius, Homological stability and non-stability for moduli spaces of closed manifolds
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Kathryn Hess, Waldhausen K-theory and topological coHochschild homology
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 John Francis, A proof of the cobordism hypothesis
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Andrew Blumberg, Arithmetic duality for algebraic K-theory and the algebraic K-theory of the sphere spectrum
Tuesday, September 29
9:00-10:00 Nick Kuhn, Hurewicz maps for infinite loop spaces: theorems, examples, and conjectures
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Clark Barwick, Modes of equivariance
11:45-12:45 Nathalie Wahl, Three points of view on string topology
12:45-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Chris Schommer-Pries, Extended topological field theory in dimension three
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Oscar Randal-Williams, Tautological rings for high-dimensional manifolds
Wednesday, 30 September - Clay Research Conference
10:00-11:00 Mike Hopkins, Algebraic and motivic vector bundles
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Peter Scholze, Cohomology of algebraic varieties
12:30-13:30 Charles Fefferman, Formation of singularities in fluid interfaces
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Andrei Okounkov, Enumerative geometry and representation theory
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Maryam Mirzakhani, Counting mapping class group orbits on hyperbolic surfaces
17:00-18:00 Presentation of the 2014 Clay Research Award
Presentation of the 2015 Clay Research Award
18:00-19:00 Reception in the Mathematical Institute
Thursday, October 1
9:00-10:00 Wolfgang Lück, Aspherical manifolds, what we know and what we do not know
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Julie Bergner, Complete Segal objects and higher homotopical categories
11:45-12:45 Marco Schlichting, Homology stability of SL_n and a conjecture of Bass
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Lars Hesselholt, Topological Hochschild homology and periodicity
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:30 Peter Teichner, Higher order intersection invariants for 4-manifolds
17:00-18:00 Étienne Ghys, public lecture Dancing Vortices
18:00 Presentation of the Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge
Friday, October 2
9:00-10:00 Constantin Teleman, Equivariant category theory
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Dan Freed, Reflection positivity in extended field theory
11:45-12:45 Neil Strickland, Chromatic cohomology of finite general linear groups
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Ib Madsen, Automorphisms of manifolds and graph homology